Record numbers attended with 80 people registering on the
CGR website and over 100 turning up on the night. The Otago
Museum provided a comfortable and atmospheric venue for the
evenings celebrations.

Our invited speaker was Dr David Palmer from LactoPharma,
School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland. His
seminar was titled ‘Milk proteomics:cash from cows.’
In this technical presentation Dr Palmer reviewed his approach
to high throughput protein sequencing from milk and milk products. His advice on selection of MALDI-TOF instruments, sample preparation,
analysis software and data handling was well received and
timely given current local interest in establishing proteomics
capability.

The judges had the formidable task of selecting winners for the student competition. The high standard of entries was to be commended. All posters received praise from the judges but there were only five prizes to be awarded (see below). Our thanks to the this year’s judges : Dr David Palmer, Dr Paul Hessian, Dr Anita Dunbier, Dr Erwin Lamping and Dr Chris Brown.

Student Prize Winners

Erin Cawston

Centre for Gene Research Prize

Dominik Wiemuth

Functional Genomics, Gene Expression & Proteomics
Prize

Tian Chang

Oral Microbiology and Dental
Health Prize

Nattanan Panjaworayan

Virology Prize

Ester Pearl

invitrogen Prize

Other Award Winners

Clive Ronson

Speedy Gonzales Award

Lisha Sablan

The Annual FISH Award

The Speedy Gonzales Prize for the first person to sign up
on the website went to Professor Clive Ronson. The annual
FISH award was a challenge as no-one used ‘FISH’ for their
poster. However Lisha Sablan was the lucky winner with her
poster on rouge Hox genes in the honey bee. An award was given
for the person who could name the spot where this year’s CGR
promotional photograph was
taken. Erin Cawston was the eagle-eyed detective who won the
award.

This years sponsors were the Functional Genomics, Gene Expression
and Proteomics Theme, Oral Microbiology and Dental Health
Theme, the Virology Theme, IMMUNET and Invitrogen. Without
our sponsors the CGR Mid-Winter Poster Evening could not go
ahead. We thank them for their support.